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...irritation. And finally to Benjamin Franklin Pierce—Hawkeye—whose limitless storehouse of wit kept American punsters in full supply. To the 4077th M*A*S*H we raise our martini glasses one last time (ingredients: plenty of gin) in a toast to Lorenzo Schwartz, the inventor of vermouth...
...Speed Racer is the familiar fable of the little man fighting the big corporation, the inventor vs the exploiter, the young athlete whose talents would be used and abused by the establishment. In the Racer clan, Pops (John Goodman) is a mechanic turned car designer. Mom (Susan Sarandon) is the family's emotional center, a font of dewy wisdom. Older brother Rex (Scott Porter) is a champion racer who confides some of his Zen driving secrets to his younger brother Speed before mysteriously disappearing after a car crash. Years later, Speed (Emile Hirsch) is ready to carry on the Racer...
...plain-in-comparison Michelle Monaghan (“Gone Baby Gone”) as two friends—the womanizing Tom and innocent Hannah, respectively. The two meet in college at Cornell—a poor beginning, in my opinion. Ten years later, Tom is the rich inventor of the “coffee collar” and Hannah works for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and they’re still best friends. But then Hannah suddenly travels to Scotland on business for six weeks, and during this separation, Tom realizes that Hannah...
...governance, Dick Cheney. In his first appearance in the March 1963 issue of Tales of Suspense, as written by Stan Lee and his brother Larry Lieber, and illustrated by Kirby and Don Heck, Stark was inspired by Howard Hughes in his Spruce Goose phase: titan of industry, crackerjack engineer-inventor, indefatigable wooer of Hollywood actresses. (Later in the decade he'd be transformed into a cool Cold Warrior, fighting the Commies in Vietnam.) In the movie he's more a Richard Branson figure: suave, sexy, driven, a master of self-promotion and record-breaking stunts. What else could a rich...
...Kohlberg said. “The agreement with Merck is an agreement between the University, and OTD represents the University.” If the research eventually produces royalties, the profits will be handled under the University’s intellectual property agreement, which gives a portion to the inventor. Ezekowitz emphasized that there will be no restrictions on the publications of the lab’s work. But he added that Merck needed to “protect the proprietary structure of the compound” that the lab might generate. —Staff writer Nathan C. Strauss...